The Nigerian government on Monday issued a travel advisory to its citizens visiting the US and European countries.
Delivering his opening remarks at the ongoing Buhari administration score card series, Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, advised travelling Nigerians to take precautions when in the countries as reported cases of theft were on the rise there.
Mr Mohammed said he was not issuing a travel advisory but merely giving a piece of advice to Nigerians who may be visiting these countries.
“It has come to the attention of the government that Nigerian travellers to the United States and some countries in Europe are having their belongings, especially money and international passports, stolen at an increasingly high rate,” he said.
According to the information minister, recent victims of these thefts are travellers to the UK, most of whom were dispossessed of their belongings at high brow shops, particularly in the high street of Oxford.
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